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Re: Sigma 50-150 2.8 is great
I've been doing portrait sessions with my daughter every weekend. I have a very small studio, about 4x3m so I mainly use this lens at 100mm. A bit more or less depending on where I'm positioned. I find that at f2.8 there is too little DoF (I'm about 1.5m from subject) so I prefer to use f4. At f4 the background, about 2m… -
Re: Canon G9 - Is it good or bad ?
I bought a last week G9 after reading this review: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2007/09/canon-g9-revi-1.html While its primary role is to be my wife's camera, I decided to get a P&S that I will use at times too. After playing with it for a couple hours I like it, but I am still not ready… -
Re: New and first lens
Yeah, I can imagine people getting frustrated trying to learn to do whatever they're trying to learn, whether one is studying to be a neurologist, a pro-photographer with F or DSLRs, a pianist or a martial artist, etc. I haven't really gotten 100% frustrated, just down on myself about the entire situation. My first SLR was… -
Re: Possible Travel Kit
Sounds like you've got it down. Is the D70 a full-sized chip, or a smaller one like my Rebel XT? Looking at your lens choices, I didn't know if they were actual 35mm focal lengths or 1.6x conversions. . . . Pardon my ignorance. 100 years ago I had a Nikkor AI 35mm f/1.4. . . . Which I loved. Sold it to a friend and regret… -
Re: Birds of the Night
Trish, I just, last wed, got my new 20D Canon. This is the second time out for me. It was a bit easier this time. I didn't mess anything up because of the wrong settings. I did forget that I could raise my ISO as it got darker and I was taking sunsets. But I have always forgotten that. I should have a plug in for my camera… -
Re: Shooting in a Barn
Thanks Pathfinder, I love my 70-200 2.8, so it really is my primary lens. I was probably rather funny looking when shooting the pictures of the girl on the paint horse jumping in the indoor. I had the D50 with the 70-200 (because it has fairly usable ISO 1600 shots) and then the D80 with the 50mm and the jumps were 4… -
Re: 40D Initial Impressions and Noise Tests
Some 40D Pics This is a two exposure composite (the 40D dynamic range isn't THAT good). The two base images were taken with the 28-135, at 33mm. The resulting moon and venus were too small for my taste (and blurred from a 20sec exp), so I also took separate shots of them with the lens at 135mm (0.5 sec @ 100ISO, f5.6).… -
Re: Rugby photos first attempt please help
Pam, I think you did pretty good considering the conditions Mid-day shooting is always rough. There's just too much dynamic range for your camera to capture it all well. If you try to cut back on the blowouts, darker areas will be even more under exposed You can get better post processed images from RAW files. But, you say… -
Re: 30ish or 50ish prime for a 1.6 crop factor?
Actually, these are perfect examples of the issue. Photo 1, her nose, forehead, and head are big - ever ever so slightly. Photo 2, it's the perfect FL. Nothing is distorted. Photo 3, the forward hand is really large compared with the back one. (just look how the wrong focal length lens twisted his face all around ... lol… -
Re: Borrowed a Leica M6 TTL 0.85
Earlier this year, I went to Cambodia for about a week. I had been bitten very badly by the film bug (its a cyclic thing for me) and I decided to go back to the day when I had a minolta SLR and film. Only now I had a Nikon N80 (which I wanted ever since I wanted one.) I sincerely intended to shoot the entire trip on film,…
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